Covenant of love

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As a covenant of love , Father Josef Kentenich called his “ Consecration to the Mother of God ”, which he concluded with the students of the Pallottine boarding school on October 18, 1914 in the cemetery chapel in Vallendar (later called Original Shrine ). From this consecration , the Schoenstatt Movement , a spiritual renewal movement within the Catholic Church , developed within a few years and the covenant of love is concluded by many members of the movement.

More precisely, the covenant of love is to be understood as a total surrender to God through Jesus and Mary. It was important to Kentenich that devotion to Mary always leads to Jesus and should not compete with consecration to Jesus. Those who make the covenant of love with Mary consecrate themselves to Jesus and above all to God the Father . Kentenich therefore saw Schoenstatt less as a purely Marian movement, but always emphasized the Christocentric and above all the patrocentric character.

Consecration prayer

The dedication prayer, also known as the Little Consecration , composed by the Jesuit priest, physicist and ascetic writer Niccolo Zucchi (1586–1670) around 1666 , can be prayed when making and renewing the covenant of love:

O my mistress, my mother!
I
offer myself completely to your immaculate heart, and to show you my devotion,
I consecrate
my eyes, my ears,
my mouth, my heart,
myself completely to you today .
Since I am yours, then, O good mother,
So guard me and protect me
As your property and your property.
Amen.

Small consecration

No formal act is required to make the covenant of love; In addition, there is generally no contractual form for membership in the Schoenstatt Movement . Since Father Kentenich valued the personal freedom of the individual very much, he refused a contractual relationship with the Schoenstatt Movement. Anyone who wants to make the covenant of love and thus be a Schoenstatt member does so in a personal prayer to Mary, but is not committed to anything in terms of canonical law. In order to conclude the covenant of love, a freely formulated, personal prayer or the dedication prayer "O my mistress ..." (see above) can be said.

Employee consecration

For a more intensive connection with God, Mary and the Schoenstatt Movement, the covenant of love can be expanded to include staff consecration. It is possible from the age of 15 and requires active participation in the Schoenstatt Movement.

Tool consecration

The consecration of tools requires a very close connection to Schoenstatt. It deepens and expands the employee ordination and demands certain tasks from the candidates. Therefore, candidates are intensively prepared and examined before they are admitted to the tool consecration. The basic idea "I want to be an instrument of Mary" is decisive. Various methods help to implement this resolution in everyday life.

literature

Monographs and text collections
  • Schoenstatt. The founding documents , Schoenstatt-Verlag, Vallendar 1967 (7th edition 1995). ISBN 3-920849-13-2
  • Ferdinand Kastner: Of complete devotion to God . An ascetic-mariological study, Paderborn 1940
  • Joseph Kentenich: Texts for Understanding Schoenstatt . Published by P. Günther M. Boll, Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 1974. ISBN 3-87620-038-5 .
  • Josef Kentenich: Marian tool piety (1944). Published by the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, Schoenstatt Publishing House, Vallendar 1974. ISBN 3-920849-26-4 .
  • Josef Kentenich: Coronation of Mary - Salvation of the Christian social order , Schoenstatt publishing house (1946), Vallendar 1977. ISBN 3-920849-29-9 .
  • Joseph Kentenich: Das Lebensgeheimnis Schoenstatts (1952), 2 vols. (Part I: Spirit and Form, Part II: Covenant Piety), Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 1972
  • Josef Kentenich: Maria - mother and educator . An applied Mariology (1954), Schoenstatt-Verlag, Vallendar 2nd edition 1973. ISBN 3-920849-23-X .
  • Herbert King: Marian Federal Spirituality . A Kentenich reader, Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 1994 (Schoenstatt Studies 8). ISBN 3-87620-177-2 .
  • Herbert King: Life in the Bund , Schoenstatt Publishing House, Vallendar 2002 (Kentenich profile sketches 4). ISBN 3-935396-03-1 .
  • Herbert King: Covenant of Love . Impulses for dealing with the spirituality of Schoenstatt, Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 1989 (2nd edition 1991). ISBN 3-87620-139-X .
  • Monika Treese: Life from the covenant of love . On the theology and spirituality of the Schoenstatt Covenant of Love, Schoenstatt Publishing House, Vallendar 1984. ISBN 3-920849-38-8 .
  • Uta Widmann: Complete Devotion - The Way to Life in God , Neuwied 1940
items
  • Ferdinand Kastner: An example of practiced devotion to Mary. In: ders .: Marianic Christ shaping the world. Paderborn 5th ed. 1941, pp. 289-332.
  • Daniela Mohr: Blank Power of Attorney . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 , p. 38–39 ( moriah.de [accessed on May 8, 2013]).
  • Daniela Mohr: Inscriptio . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 , p. 174–175 ( moriah.de [accessed on May 8, 2013]).
  • Lothar Penners: Federal Spirituality . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 , p. 43–49 ( moriah.de [accessed on May 8, 2013]).
  • Lothar Penners: Engling consecration . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 , p. 69 ( moriah.de [accessed on May 8, 2013]).
  • Lothar Penners: Covenant of Love . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 , p. 229–233 ( moriah.de [accessed on May 8, 2013]).
  • Paul Vautier: Small consecration . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 , p. 202–203 ( moriah.de [accessed on May 8, 2013]).

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